CheckoutAndBuild

Local one-click CI for Visual Studio: keep any number of solutions up to date with a single click — clean, git checkout, NuGet restore, build and test, all out of process and in parallel. Plus a full git cockpit (changes, stashes, history, branches, worktrees, multi-repo sync) and Azure DevOps work item tools.

Website: https://fgilde.github.io/CheckoutAndBuild/ · Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fgilde.CheckoutAndBuild

Install

• Visual Studio Marketplace: search for "CheckoutAndBuild" in Extensions → Manage Extensions
• Manual: download the .vsix from the latest release and double-click it

Requires Visual Studio 2022 or 2026 (amd64) and git on PATH.

Features

Pipeline

• Clean → Checkout (git pull) → NuGet restore → Build → Test for every included solution
• Solutions with the same build priority run in parallel; priority groups run in order
• "Suggest Build Priorities" scans cross-solution references and orders the build automatically
• Status bar with elapsed time and ETA, per-solution progress, "retry failed only"
• Build errors and test failures in the Visual Studio Error List, double-click jumps to code
• Script export (.bat/.ps1), scheduled runs, background-finish notification, taskbar progress
• Working profiles, per-branch settings, per-solution service/property/target overrides
• MEF plugin API: custom services, pre/post actions, build property providers, settings pages

Git cockpit

• Changes with real VS diff, stage/unstage, commit & push, patch export/apply, zip export
• Stashes, filtered history with per-file follow, branches with ahead/behind badges
• Multi-repo sync, same-branch checkout across repositories, merged-branch cleanup, PR links
• Worktree manager: list, add, remove, prune — switch worktrees straight from the main window

Azure DevOps

• Work item query view and search & replace across work item text fields (REST, PAT auth)

JetBrains IDEs (Rider, IntelliJ, PhpStorm, …)

JetBrains/ contains a platform plugin that works in every JetBrains IDE (it only depends on the core platform). It brings the one-click pipeline to polyglot codebases: working folders are scanned for .NET solutions, Gradle, Maven, npm, Composer, Cargo and Go projects; the pipeline runs git pull → install/restore → build → test per project, same-priority projects in parallel.

cd JetBrains
./gradlew buildPlugin        # zip lands in build/distributions/

Install via Settings → Plugins → ⚙ → Install Plugin from Disk. Each GitHub release also carries the plugin zip as an asset.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/fgilde/CheckoutAndBuild.git
msbuild VisualStudio/CheckoutAndBuild.VisualStudio/CheckoutAndBuild.VisualStudio.csproj /restore
dotnet test VisualStudio/CheckoutAndBuild.Core.Tests

The engine (CheckoutAndBuild.Core, netstandard2.0) is IDE-free and runs every step through external processes (git, msbuild via vswhere, vstest, nuget/dotnet).

Release

Publishing a new version is a two-step process:

1. GitHub release (automatic): create a release with a tag like v3.2.0 (or push the tag). The release workflow stamps the VSIX version from the tag, builds, runs all tests and attaches CheckoutAndBuild-v3.2.0.vsix to the GitHub release.
2. Marketplace (one local command): .\publish-marketplace.ps1 -Version 3.2.0 — builds the VSIX with the stamped version and uploads it to the Visual Studio Marketplace using a short-lived Entra ID token from the local az login (no stored secrets). It verifies the expected account before doing anything.

The workflow's own marketplace step only activates when a VS_MARKETPLACE_PAT secret exists — kept as an option, not required.

License

See LICENSE. The previous generation of the extension lives under Legacy/ for reference.